Monadelphous has been awarded multiple new maintenance and mining services contracts with some of Australia’s largest miners.
The engineering company has locked in two one-year contract extensions with Rio Tinto, which are for fixed plant maintenance services and sustaining capital projects across the major’s iron ore operations in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
At the Tom Price iron ore mine in the Pilbara, Monadelphous has also secured a fabrication, supply, installation and commissioning contract. The works are expected to be completed by mid-2025.
The contracts with Rio Tinto come as the major miner welcomes increased iron ore production and shipments in the first quarter of the 2024–25 financial year.
Elsewhere in WA, Monadelphous has secured a new three-year contract with South32’s Worsley Alumina operation. Worsley Alumina comprises a bauxite mine located near Boddington and an alumina refinery located near Collie.
Under the new contract, Monadelphous will deliver minor project works. The deal follows Monadelphous locking in a maintenance and shutdown services contract extension at Worsley Alumina in September.
Inteforge, Monadelphous’ fabrication business, has secured a contract for the supply and fabrication of structural steelwork and pipe racks at Iluka’s Eneabba rare earths refinery project in WA. The works are expected to be concluded in mid-2025.
Since the 1990s, Iluka has stockpiled monazite produced at its Narngulu mineral separation plant near Eneabba. Iluka commissioned a concentrator plant at Eneabba to further process the stockpiled material and separate the monazite to produce approximately 90 per cent monazite concentrate, which will provide a direct feed to Iluka’s Eneabba rare earths refinery.
In total, the five contracts will generate approximately $160 million in revenue for Monadelphous.
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